Southern Ingenuity
My friend Tom Rankin says he heard somebody call motion-activated nature-trail videos “the best thing invented in the South since the five-gallon bucket.” I like the ring of that observation. I welcome the opportunity to lead off a column with it. However, I can’t confirm that either the bucket or the video in question was, in fact, invented in the South.
Could’ve been. Waldo Semon, born in Demopolis, Alabama, invented PVC as we know it.. He was in Akron, Ohio, though, when he brought it about. (Watch out: If you make the mistake of Googling “Waldo Sermon,” without “PVC,” you get sermons on the theme of “Where’s Waldo?”)
